Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ At Scranton last week met the biennial convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the...
On the Scoreboard at the Stade Roland Garros, near Paris last week the blank space reserved for the name of the Davis Cup winners was barely big enough for the word FRANCE, too small for the name of France's opponent in the challenge round, GRANDE BRETAGNE. The painter...
Governor Davis had hardly left the chamber when a great babble of dissent erupted. Politicos were openly resentful, began to threaten dreaded noncooperation with the Governor General which would tie the Islands' legislative affairs into hard knots. Mr. Davis had recommended a long-term public works program ("Pork is...
Last week Governor Davis appointed to the insular Senate Jamalul Kiram, 66-year-old Sultan of Sulu, to represent the Philippines' Moslem population. Occupant of an ancient throne that once had wide temporal powers, the Sultan used to have 50 wives. Now he has but three. Representative of the...
Not since 1919 has a British Davis Cup team reached the challenge round. When the British Davis Cup team played the U. S. at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, last week, it was almost a foregone conclusion that little dignified Herbert Wilbur (''Bunny") Austin, Frederick Perry and Perry'...